Schedule

The following schedule is subject to change according to the demands of the class. Items followed by an asterisk are in the Adams anthology of critical theory. I will announce changes to it in class when the need presents itself.

M	August 31	Introduction
W	September 2	William Deresiewicz, "The Neoliberal Arts: How College Sold Its Soul to the Market" (available on Moodle) Plato, from Ion, from Republic**

M	September 7	Labor Day Holiday
W	September 9	Guest Q and A: Craig Stroupe on the English M. A. Program Plato, Phaedrus (available online)

M	September 14	Aristotle, Poetics* Horace, Art of Poetry*
W	September 16	RESPONSE PAPER ON CLASSICAL CRITICISM Longinus, On the Sublime*

M	September 21	PROPOSAL DUE Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go, Chapters 1-5 (1-60)
W	September 23	Ishiguro, Chapters 6-9 (61-114)

M	September 28	Ishiguro, Chapters 10-17 (115-206)
W	September 30	Ishiguro, Chapters 18-23 (207-288)

M	October 5	RESPONSE PAPER ON NEVER LET ME GO Sir Francis Bacon, from The Advancement of Learning, "Preface to the Wisdom of the Ancients," from The New Organon* Pierre Corneille, "Of the Three Unities of Action, Time and Place"*
W	October 7	ABSTRACT DUE Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, from Laocoön* Friedrich Schiller, from Letters on the Aesthetic Education of Man*

M	October 12	Percy Bysshe Shelley, "A Defense of Poetry"* Ralph Waldo Emerson, from "The American Scholar,"* from "The Poet"*
W	October 14	RESPONSE PAPER ON ENLIGHTENMENT AND ROMANTICISM Bruce Robbins, "Cruelty Is Bad" Keith MacDonald, "Days of Past Futures"

M	October 19	Karl Shaddox, "Generic Considerations in Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go" Shameem Black, "Ishiguro's Inhuman Esthetics" Anne Whitehead, "Writing with Care"
W	October 21	PROSPECTUS DUE Nancy Armstrong, "The Affective Turn in Contemporary Fiction" Jane Elliott, "Suffering Agency"

M	October 26	Virginia Woolf, "A Room of One's Own"* Jean-Paul Sartre, "Marxism and Existentialism"* Frantz Fanon, "On National Culture"*
W	October 28	Shirley Jackson, "The Lottery" Ursula K. Le Guin, "The Ones Who Walk away from Omelas" Michel Foucault, Discipline and Punish, The Body of the Condemned

M	November 2	ANNOTATED BIBLIOGRAPHY DUE Foucault, Discipline and Punish, The Spectacle of the Scaffold
W	November 4	Foucault, Discipline and Punish, Panopticism

M	November 9	Foucault, Discipline and Punish, Prison
W	November 11	WORKSHOP: TOPIC PRESENTATIONS AND DISCUSSION Barbara Johnson, Translator's Introduction to Dissemination

M	November 16	Jacques Derrida, Dissemination, Outwork
W	November 18	Jacques Derrida, Dissemination, Plato's Pharmacy, Part I PEER-EDITING OF SEMINAR PAPER

M	November 23	Jacques Derrida, Dissemination, Plato's Pharmacy, Part II
W	November 25	Paul de Man, "The Resistance to Theory"*

M	November 30	Edward Said, from Orientalism* Stanley Fish, "Is There a Text in This Class?"*
W	December 2	RESPONSE PAPER ON POSTMODERN CRITICISM DUE

M	December 7	Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, "Introduction: Rhizome"*
W	December 9	Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, from Epistemology of the Closet* SEMINAR PAPER DUE